Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr. Fredrick Fasheun, has been overthrown as president of the organisation by a faction of the group led by Comrade Dare Adesope, who has been announced as the new president of the congress.

At a news conference on Tuesday at the congress’ secretariat, Egbe area of Ikotun, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Adesope said OPC has lost confidence in the leadership of Fasheun who had thrown the organisation into crisis and politics.

Abuja, Nigeria, 27 April 2015: President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari says the Boko Haram will be denied a recruitment base the moment our local communities realize that its claim to being a religious group is nothing but a fraud.

"The fraud called Boko Haram can be defeated by denying it a recruitment base," General Buhari told visiting leaders of Nassarawa State who came to congratulate him on his emergence as President-elect.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Rivers state chapter says the State Governor Chibuike Amaechi and All Progressives Congress, APC are plotting to secure a Court Injunction in Awka, Anambra State to stop the swearing-in of Rivers State Governor- Elect, Chief Nyesom Wike on May 29, 2015.

20 year old Nigerian young man, Ola Raji, was stabbed to death last week Tuesday while cycling through an estate in Peckham, near a community centre founded in memory of murdered schoolboy, Damilola Taylor.According to reports, Ola was shot three times and stabbed by two men who ambushed him around 10.30pm. The men fled after the attack and Ola later died in hospital.Ola Raji was a pupil at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic School in Camberwell and went to college. Police are now looking for his murderers.

The former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor Godwin Moffat, is to spend the next three years in prison for stealing 56 transformers worth a whopping N220 million, meant for distribution to oil producing communities in the state.

Pastor Moffat was dragged to an AkwaIbom State High Court on a 56 count charge bordering on stealing, conversion and misappropriation of funds, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and he was duly sentenced.

A 42-year-old Kenyan female dancer, Samira Johnson, has been nabbed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, with cocaine weighing 5.345kg.

The spokesman of the drug bursting agency, Mitchell Ofoyeju, said the dancer had concealed the narcotics in some school bags.

The question being asked in an Ohio court is if a mentally deranged woman, Deasia Watkins, is fit enough to stand trial for the murder of her three-months-old baby who she beheaded. Another question the prosecutors are trying to find answer to is if the man who got her pregnant should not be charged for having sexual relations with someone who is mentally challenged.

Abeokuta, April 29, 2015 (NAN) An Abeokuta Customary Court sitting in Ake on Wednesday dissolved a three-year-old marriage between Mr Femi Olayiwole and wife, Kemi, due to the absence of vagina, deceit and frequent fighting.

Olayiwole told the court that his wife deceived him to marry her knowing that she could not bear him a child.

He accused his wife, who had failed to appear in court after being summoned several times, of living a false life, frequent fighting and threatening his life.

Even as the All Progressives Congress (APC) has promised to sustain certain agencies of government to keep up with development in Niger Delta, ex-militants from the region have cautioned the incoming administration of General Muhammadu Buhari not to tamper with the programmes of the outgoing Jonathan’s government.

Speaking under the aegis of Niger Delta Salvation Front(NDSF), the ex-militants alleged that their kinsman and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, lost the election to international conspiracy and further accused the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, of playing a regional/ethnic card in the just-concluded general elections.

45 year old Adamu Abdullahi (pictured below) says he will be trekking form Maiduguri in Borno state to Abuja from tomorrow April 30th, so he can meet with Gen Buhari to congratulate him on his victory at the presidential elections, according to KSM News. Married with 4 children, Adamu says he will be leaving Maiduguri by 6am tomorrow and will depart from Jimtilo park. He asked all Borno state indigenes to forward their petitions to him so he can forward them to Gen. Buhari.

The Federal Government on Wednesday said it took exception to some of the terms of reference of the transition committee set up by the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Minister of National Planning, Dr. Abubakar Sulaiman, disclosed this at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.Sulaiman, who is the chairman of the Technical Subcommittee of the outgoing government’s transition committee, said the council warned the incoming government against running a parallel government.He said President Goodluck Jonathan’s magnanimity should not be taken as a sign or cowardice.